Luxor, Egypt, a city dating back thousands
of years, still displays history like it was happening yesterday. From ancient
temples to the hustle on the Nile River, this city teleports you back into the
early days of civilization. What's going on, guys?
My name is Mac Candee, and I'm currently traveling all around
the world making videos about things to do, places to see,
travel guides and so much more. And in today's video, guys, I'm going to be sharing with you things to
do in the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt. First thing I want to mention is that these things aren't in any
specific order from best to worst. They're just simply how
we experience the trip. And we did these excursions through
basically our tour on the Nile cruise. And so we're not going to be sharing much
on the Nile cruise in this specific video. But make sure to look out for the next video coming out after this one where
we're going to be sharing with you our 45 dollars per night cruise down
the Nile River for three nights. So let's go ahead and jump right
into this video about Luxor, Egypt. First stop is over here
at the Karnak temple. So as you can see right here we're about to enter in and it is two hundred
Egyptian pounds to get in. If you have a student ID,
it is 50 percent off. So then you get it for one
hundred Egyptian pounds. So much, much better. Let's go in, we'll show you
what it looks like in there. All right,
I just got my ticket here, like I said two hundred pounds. Maria since she' a student got
her hundred-pound ticket. (You're feeling jealous?) Yeah, very much so.
Very much so. So the main entrance of the temple
is the big one you see right there. All right,
so we just arrived in this place. It's actually much busier
than I expected it to be mid-pandemic. This massive temple
covers a whopping 200 acres. So it's a huge plot of land. And some of these monuments and everything
are dating back like over 3,000 years old. And it took them one thousand five hundred
years to construct this entire place. So that just puts it into perspective,
number one, how massive this place is. And number two, how much longer things took when there wasn't all
the technological advancements. But it is super, super impressive. It seems like every square inch
of this place has so much detail. Just look at these massive
columns everywhere. And they actually used to all be painted. So you can just imagine what this place looked like, like three thousand years
ago, just super colorful, just the land of the gods basically,
insane. I'm seriously blown away, it is a forest of massive,
massive columns in here that are all decorated and carved in such
unique hieroglyphics. And just walking around this place,
you imagine what it must have been like, three thousand, three thousand six hundred
years ago, just an absolute mind-blowing place that they could
build something like this. Like it feels surreal. It literally feels like, I don't
even know, like these things are huge. I feel tiny in here. Maria, what's your favorite
part about this place? Well, I'll show you. Right up there you can still see some of the color
that these pillars were colored with. And now it is time to head on over to our next place to show you
guys here in Luxor, Egypt. All right, guys,
so we just got here to the Luxor temple. We're spending this afternoon exploring a few different spots
here with my man Imad, he's our guide for the day.
He's showing us all these cool spots, Imad give us your best
fact about this place. So the best fact is the different
cultures and religions, we see it in here. I mean, we see
ruins of the temple, Pharaonic temple back to like three thousand
four hundred years ago. And the Muslim mosque,
which was like 600 years old and ruins of a Coptic church farther
in back to like 600 AD. Wow. So Christian, Christian church,
a Muslim mosque. And a pharaonic temple in just one spot. Wow, that's amazing.
I'm excited to see that. What about you Maria?
Are you all pumped up now or what? (Yes!) You see that smile coming out?
So you can pretty much see all of the Luxor temple and its components
of the history and everything in about an hour, including spending
some time with the tour guide. And I would also mention that you want to come either at sunrise or sunset,
because I think it looks very beautiful the way the temples lit up
during those golden hours. All right, guys, that wraps up
day number one here in Luxor. A great first day doing some exploration. We're probably going to be hitting up the hot air balloons tomorrow
and then some other temples as well. Good morning, guys.
We were doing a 4 AM wake-up call to do my first ever hot air balloon ride
right outside of Luxor. And it's going to be amazing. We agreed with the guy to do it
for about 35 U.S. dollars per person. I want to say it's like a 30 to 45
minute ride right at sunrise. So it's tough to get up,
but it's going to be worth it. All right, so we just took about a 10,
15-minute bus ride over to, right along the Nile River, where we're going
to hop on a little ferry to cross over. I'm not sure how long it is,
but I think once we get across, then we have another bus we're taking
in order to get to the hot air balloon. So a bit of a little journey, that's why you got to wake up so early
for it, but it's going to be worth it. We just made it on the boat here. The one thing I've overlooked when coming
to Egypt is I never thought it was going to be so cold in the evenings
and I only brought this little ripped jean jacket, and so, been a struggle with some
of the nights, but the good news is the boat ride around,
they have hot tea and coffee so that's warm in itself for the five minute ride across before
we hop on another bus. And then we will be
at the hot air balloon. So we'll see you on the other side.
All right, after a quick little coffee and a five
minute cruise, we are now getting to our last leg of the transportation to get
across to get over to the hot air balloon. And that is one more van. So it's kind of surprising we only went like,
like a tenth of a mile across there so there must not be any
close enough bridges. And here is our... Good morning. Alright guys, and we have made it on the hot air
balloon, I had to put my camera away for the takeoff, unfortunately,
because I guess no professional cameras allowed until you get up here. And so I got some good footage on the phone but as you can see first time on a hot air balloon and this is insane. And it feels great right now, remember
I was saying I was freezing before, well this fire is warming me up. This is insane, we have some amazing views right now of all these monuments
like the Valley of the Queens, is it? Yeah.
Yes. And there's like 10 other hot air balloons in the air, it is such an amazing
way to wake up in the morning. So beautiful. We are flying towards a
temple that has a pharaoh that has 47 wives and over a hundred kids. It sounds like the guy really
like to have some fun here. I think what makes this so special is that
it's sunrise here in Egypt over temples. They're also burning all
of their fields right now. So you're getting like this layer
of smoke mixing with the sunrise. It's something I've never
experienced before. Amazing. Being up in the hot air balloon,
it was very cool to witness the sun rising and the temples, the horizon,
everything looked slightly different every couple of minutes, every time you
turned around and looked the other way. Then at the end here, the squad from the hot air balloon company
assembled so quickly, got together and they got us down
fast and efficiently and very safely. It was such a cool experience.
Wow. Honestly, this is ike was exactly what I envisioned, a hot air
balloon ride to be like right at sunrise. You see other hot air balloons
cruising right along the skyline. We were able to see all these temples, able
to see the burning brush in the fields. Just amazing.
I will see you guys at the next spot. And that wraps up our morning here. Checking out the Sinbad hot air balloons,
this company is awesome. They pick up super early. They bus you over here,
you ride this palookas back. I mean,
how great is this right at the sunrise when you can see all of this
coming into Luxor right now and so it's it's amazing. A really good value and the crew, the staff, everyone
takes really, really good care of you. This is not a sponsored video this is me just loving this company. And I want to bring them more business because they took such good care
and you will be mind-blown. We are doing some more
temple exploration today. It is about 8:30 a.m.
after an amazing morning, doing some sunrise hot air balloon
cruising, which I absolutely loved. So cruising over to our taxi, and then our guide from yesterday, if you remember him, Imad,
he's going to be taking us to a few great spots before we
depart here at 2:00 p.m. today. So stay tuned, we have got some amazing
places to show you. All right, guys, we just arrived to our next spot, and I can never
remember how to say it. So how do you say it Maria?
(Temple Hatsut) Temple Hatsut? That doesn't sound right. (Hatshepsut) Hatshepsut is
I think how you say it. And it is super beautiful because it sits
right in between these massive mountains. In order to get from the main entrance
over to the actual Temple Hatshepsut you take this little train here for two Egyptian pounds, which is like 13
cents for a round-trip ticket. So super inexpensive when you realize that 13 cents and then we're talking
what eight cents each way so not too bad for a fun little ride
up. In order to visit the temple here, it'll cost you one hundred
forty Egyptian pounds. Or if you're a student or from the press, you can get it for seventy
Egyptian pounds. So the proper way to pronounce
it is the Temple of Hatshepsut. And the significance of Queen Hatshepsut
is that she was the first female pharaoh with full authority as
a pharaoh during her reign. That's a super cool place, you can pretty much explore the entire
place in about 15 minutes or so and you can even tip the guys to go
in some secret rooms. You really only pay like less
than a dollar to tip those guys. But that's pretty common at temples when you're going into various areas
that are a bit more hidden, you can pay like the guys that are
operating at just a very small amount. And that wraps up our quick stop
here at Temple of Hatshepsut. We're walking through a market here so on your way in or out, you've got
some options to pick up some things. But obviously, if you're buying things right next to a temple,
you're going to pay a premium compared to buying in other local
markets and other places. So keep that in mind but it's still going to be pretty cheap if you're someone from a country like the United States, the prices are quite
low, but everything is negotiable. Back to the bus,
we will see you at the next stop. All right, guys, we just made it to our next spot here in Luxor,
which is the Valley of the Kings. It's about two hundred and forty
Egyptian pounds to get in. We're doing a little train
ride to our first spot here. If you're a student,
once again, 50 percent off. And if you're Egyptian, I think you
get it for like fourteen pounds. So it pays to be a local. So this is a huge place we're going to spend probably an hour
and a half exploring some of these area and they're calling it
the Grand Canyon of Egypt without the river, without the Red Cliffs. So now I can see why they call this place the Valley of the Kings, insane. I feel
like from like super high up in the air you'll probably going to see it just because it's all like yellow rock.
As you can probably imagine, in the Valley of the Kings,
you're going to find a lot of tombs. And so included in our ticket price, we're able to see three tombs,
of course, the most legendary one Tutankhamen's an extra three
hundred Egyptian pounds. So that's probably twenty-two bucks or so. But our tour guide said
that it's not worth it so I don't think we're going to go in. But the tombs we've gotten so far
have been, they're cool. This one we're going into, as you can see behind
me, go super far into the ground. And this is just like a little bit
compared to some of the other ones. Honestly, you really only need to see
three of the tombs to kind of get a good feel for Valley of the Kings,
unless you're super into history and you want to really pay attention
to the difference in the hieroglyphics. Otherwise, if you're not as in tune with
it, it may look a bit similar for you. I enjoyed all of them, but three was enough for me
to move on to our next place. Our last and final stop of the day is here at the Medinet Habu Temple, so it's about
three thousand two hundred years old. So it's been around for a few years if you ask me. It is about one hundred Egyptian pounds to get in or once again
if you're a student fifty percent off so you get it for fifty pounds to get in and we're going to go
check this place out. So Medinet Habu is the name
of the location and the temple is specifically the temple
of Rameses the third. This place is overall
quite well preserved. I would say spending thirty minutes here is enough to explore the entire temple,
which actually includes over seventy-five thousand square feet or seven thousand
square meters of decorated walls. We're getting a special
tour to the back area. And keep in mind, when they bring you
to back areas on your own, you know shukran, brother. Shukran. OK, OK. So here's the whole thing, when you go to these temples,
just know to bring small bills with you, because if you bring small bills,
then they will bring you to some cool places like these, charges to be
from 10 Egyptian pounds. Go now? We're getting in trouble if we stayed up too long, but that'll
get us up to places like this. As you can see, I'm up here on top just chillin in the places
we're not supposed to be. Yeah, when you think about what 10 Egyptian pounds is, that's like
sixty-seven cents at the moment. That's how you do it,
makes the locals happy also get a more unique experience. Got to go? All right guys so that pretty much wraps up this video
and things to do here in Luxor, Egypt. Obviously, I want to tell you, there are so many more things you can do
when you're exploring this amazing city. But these are just a couple must do things
that I think you'll have a blast doing. So hopefully you've enjoyed this video. If you want to see more videos like this, we're going to have so many more coming
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